Part-time Flying

[jimntx]

I have a friend who is a flight attendant at Frontier. They may be moving toward having a flight attendant union--probably an in-house union similar to AA.

She is researching various flight attendant contracts. She doesn't know anyone at CO; so, she asked me to post this here.

At Continental:
1. Is part-time flying allowed? At AA, the answer is not exactly. All lines are minimum 70 hours, but you are allowed to drop trips.
2. Do you have part-time lines on the bidsheet? If so, how many hours/days do they average? (approximate) At AA, we used to have p-t lines, but no more.
3. Is there a minimum number of hours you have to fly in a month to get company-paid benefits? How is it tracked?
For instance, at AA we have to fly an average of 35 hours a month with a 12-month rolling "lookback." In other words, each month, they look back 12 months. If you do not have a minimum of 420 hours of flying over that 12 month period, in order to maintain your medical insurance the next month, you have to pay both your portion and the company's portion of the premium. In addition, you do not get vacation and pension credit for the next month.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

 

[AirDude]

I have a friend who is a flight attendant at Frontier. They may be moving toward having a flight attendant union--probably an in-house union similar to AA.

She is researching various flight attendant contracts. She doesn't know anyone at CO; so, she asked me to post this here.

At Continental:
1. Is part-time flying allowed? At AA, the answer is not exactly. All lines are minimum 70 hours, but you are allowed to drop trips.
2. Do you have part-time lines on the bidsheet? If so, how many hours/days do they average? (approximate) At AA, we used to have p-t lines, but no more.
3. Is there a minimum number of hours you have to fly in a month to get company-paid benefits? How is it tracked?
For instance, at AA we have to fly an average of 35 hours a month with a 12-month rolling "lookback." In other words, each month, they look back 12 months. If you do not have a minimum of 420 hours of flying over that 12 month period, in order to maintain your medical insurance the next month, you have to pay both your portion and the company's portion of the premium. In addition, you do not get vacation and pension credit for the next month.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Correct me if I am wrong.

1)There is no part-time flying with CO,but we have job share and each person can only fly up to 55hrs/mo.
But in order to do sharing,both of them needs to be in the same base.For example😀omestic,International and Language bases.One person needs to be a line holder,it can not be done for two reserved person.

2)There is no part-time flying.

3)Minimum is 40/hrs per month for a line holder to maintain the benefits.But if you drop ALL the trips to ZERO,then you dont get any benefit for this month.

Hope these helps.

 

[jimntx]

I used to know someone who flew at CO and I vaguely remembered something about job sharing.
Thanks for the info, I'll pass it on.

 

[featheroleather]

1)Each month, when you bid, you can check-off the reduced flying(less than 40 hrs) option box.Then when you get a line, you can drop down to zero hours.Many do 1-2 turns a month just to cover medical bennies.In our TA we rejected, there was no mention of reducing/eliminating this option. I believe you still accrue vacation and retirement time. P.S I hope Frontier stays away from any big, non airline only union!